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The talk “Farewell and Welcome Home: Python in Two Genders” will be given by Naomi Ceder.
Naomi Ceder talks about her transition from male to female while staying involved in the Python community. She discusses that transition and explores how she found life in Python as a woman different from her former life as a man and the lessons about diversity she learned.
Naomi Ceder is author of Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed., worded many years a teacher of Python in schools, organizer of PyCon North America Education summit and Lead Architect for RazorOccam/Zoro Tools Europe. She describes herself as Pythonista, trans woman, gender-hacker, intersectional trans feminist.
The talk “Growing Open Source Seeds” will be given by Kenneth Reitz.
The talk will given an in-depth review of the stages that most open source projects go though, and the decisions their maintainers face. Requests will be used as an example; lessons learned and best practices will be covered.
We want to remind you that the standard ticket sale ends on 23/06/2014. So there are four weeks remaining for purchasing tickets to the normal rate. The on-desk ticket rate applies for all purchases after 23/06/2014. So hurry up to get your ticket(s) within the next four weeks.
We apologize for running late with the EuroPython 2014 schedule but we are now almost finished with the training and talk selection.
The complete list of EuroPython trainings can be found here.
The list of accepted talks is almost finished. Three remaining talk slots (out of 102) will be filled shortly. In addition there will be eight sponsored talks (given by EuroPython sponsors, TBA) and six keynotes (with four keynote speakers already announced and two others TBA).
A more detailed schedule with an overview of the talks by days and rooms will be published shortly.
We are pleased to announce that Constanze Kurz, spokeswoman of the German Chaos omputer Club will give a keynote speach at EuroPython 2014.
One year of Snowden, what’s next?
Since June 2013, disclosed by Edward Snowden, we learn more and more facts about American and British spies’ deep appetite for information, economic spying and the methods they use to collect data. They systematically tapped international communications on a scale that only few people could imagine. But what are the consequences for societies when they now know about the NSA metadata repository capable of taking in billions of “events” daily to collected and analyze? Is there a way to defend against an agency with a monstrous secret budget?
About Constanze Kurz
Constanze Kurz works at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin as a computer scientist. She is the spokeswoman of the German Chaos Computer Club, Europe’s largest hacker group. She is an expert on surveillance techniques and co-author of technical analyses on voting computers, data retention and anti-terror laws for the German Constitutional Court.
We extended the deadline for submitting proposals for the EuroPython 2014 poster session for a week until 05/05/2014. Persons with rejected talks now have a second chance bringing their topic to the public by submitting a poster proposal.
In the second round of the EuroPython Financial Assistance Programme we granted an additional sum of 3000 EUR for April which results in a total sum of 8000 EUR so far. There will be a thirdlast round in May. So if you are seeking for financial support for coming to the EuroPython 2014 in Berlin you can still apply for the last round.
We also started the sale of Financial Assistance support tickets last month. You can buy one or more Financial Assistance support tickets for a value of 10, 20, 50 or 100 Euro. With the purchase of Financial Assistance tickets you will support further Python enthusiasts to go to EuroPython 2014 in case they need financial support for a ticket or travel expenses. The EuroPython organization team granted already 5.000 Euro last month in the first of three rounds. Please show your appreciation for the Python community and help us to bring more people to the conference which could not make it otherwise.
Partner programme
We are currently working on the details for a partner & family programme in case you want to bring your better half or your whole family to Berlin. Berlin offers a lot of options for spending the time outside the conference programme like visits to museums, boat trips or guided trips to the Berliner “Unterwelten” and many other places of interest. A survey will be announced and published shortly in order to involve you and your partner into the arrangement and selection of the partner programme.
Diversity at EuroPython
There has been a heated discussion over the last week about the representation of women as speakers at EuroPython 2014 and about diversity in general. You can find the official thread here and the official statement of the EuroPython organizers here. Starting point of the discussion was that PyCon 2014 in Montreal reached an outstanding attendance of about 30% women (both as speaker and attendees).
The EuroPython organizers are committed to diversity by gender, sexual orientation and location. Besides the existing Code of Conduct we are working on an explicit Diversity Statement in order to make the EuroPython 2014 enjoyable for everyone. Making EuroPython more diverse is a long-time process that involves the EuroPython Society, the local organizers and the European Python community as a whole. Diversity and outreach can not be dictated but must be lived in reality on all levels.
Schedule
Therehas been some confusion related to the published preliminary schedule (also under the aspects of diversity). The complete schedule will be announced shortly with roughly additional 50 talks and all trainings. The programme team is currently heavily working on the final version that will also take more diversity aspects into account for choosing the talks. We apologize for the confusion - specially to all persons that submitted a proposal keeping them in an uninformed state. The problem was caused by some internal miscommunication but also by the desire to publish a resilient schedule as early as possible in order to let the speakers make their travel arrangements in time.
Berlin is a great place to stay and for having a good time
Last but not least: mean, speak and discuss with hundreds of other Python enthusiats. Share your knowledge, ask questions, make connections, extend your network or just enjoy some days with other Pythonistas.
We are pleased to announce Emily Bache as another EuroPython 2014 keynote speaker. Emily will talk about "Will I still be able to get a job in 2024 if I don’t do TDD?“
Geoffrey Moores’s book "Crossing the chasm” outlines the difficulties faced by a new, disruptive technology, when adoption moves from innovators and visionaries into the mainstream. Test Driven Development is clearly a disruptive technology, that changes the way you approach software design and testing. It hasn’t yet been embraced by everyone, but is it just a matter of time? Ten years from now, will a non-TDD practicing developer experience the horror of being labelled a technology adoption ‘laggard’, and be left working exclusively on dreadfully boring legacy systems?
It could be a smart move to get down to your nearest Coding Dojo and practice TDD on some Code Katas. On the other hand, the thing with disruptive technologies is that even they can become disrupted when something better comes along. What about Property-Based Testing? Approval Testing? Outside-In Development?
In this talk, I’d like to look at the chasm-crossing potential of TDD and some related technologies. My aim is that both you and I will still be able to get a good job in 2024.
About Emily Bache
Emily Bache is a software developer and test automation specialist. Currently an employee of a Swedish company, Pagero, she works on their electronic invoicing product. Together with her team, she regularly delivers working software. Emily has previously worked as a developer in organizations as diverse as small startup and large corporation, using Python as well as other languages such as Java, Scala and Ruby. For several years she worked as an independent consultant, facilitating many Coding Dojos and developer training events. Emily is a well-known conference speaker, and author of “The Coding Dojo Handbook”. She is originally from the U.K. but now lives in Göteborg, Sweden.
